Contains spoilers

Rating: Null/10 (27 November 2002)

I was told I'd hate this film, because everyone who had already seen it had been so built up by the hype all they could do was pick at it. True, 28 Days Later is not up to Boyle's style of Trainspotting- but as post apocolyptic films go I would say this is the best I've seen, far better than the american drivel forced upon us in the past few years. The use of music, the styles of the shots and the overall theme of despair was so unique- this is clearly a film to question our morals and people go to cinemas to be entertained don't they? What is 28 Days Later if it's not entertainment? Danny Boyle was trying to show us what a surreal situation these characters are in- everything that you question about this film he's done for a reason. The empty streets were to show Jim's feelings of isolation, the naked Jim adds a sense of mystery (true in reality he's be lying in his excrement- but who wants to see that? Not me)making the audience question what might happen in this film, and the soldiers wanting to rape a 14 year old girl shows an example of how society has been turned upside down. There were only two things i didn't like about this film- the dinner scene with the soldiers all laughing and joking and the ending (but then how do you end a film like this?) I think Danny Boyle did a good job. So there.